Load testing for Liveblog3

Installation

sudo pip install virtualenv
make install

Usage

make test HOST=http://liveblogdevel.dev.superdesk.org BLOG=55fa9e3de95d73002ef2931b CLIENTS=1000 HATCH=250 REQUESTS=1000

and grap the results in a csv format in results/

Options

Parameters	Description	Default value
HOST	lb host instance to test	http://liveblogdevel.dev.superdesk.org
BLOG	blog id to test	55fa9e3de95d73002ef2931b
CLIENTS	number of clients to simulate	1000
HATCH	number of clients that will spawn per second	250
REQUESTS	number of requests to reach before stopping the test	1000

Example of results

In stdout

Name        # reqs      # fails     Avg     Min     Max  |  Median   req/s
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GET posts/    4645   118(2.48%)    9578     747  137318  |    3600   24.40
GET updates/  4793   112(2.28%)    8706     517  145435  |    2900   38.10
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total         9438   230(2.44%)                                      62.50

Percentage of the requests completed within given times
Name         # reqs    50%    66%    75%    80%    90%    95%    98%    99%   100%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GET posts/     4645   3600   6100   8300  11000  24000  46000  75000  89000 137318
GET updates/   4793   2900   5500   7700  11000  23000  40000  65000  85000 145435
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In csv

enpoint,median_response_time,num_requests
"updates/ GET",2900,4793
"posts/ GET",3600,4645